Magistrate of the Dark Land

Owen Vander, once a young magistrate of the medieval kingdom of Northwaye, searches the besotted cities of the north for two kidnapped daughters. A confirmed coward, Owen has no sword skill, but he has an innate sense of honor and a determination to see justice prevail. More

Having fled a battlefield in his youth, Owen Vander knew himself a coward, yet he went on to become a king’s magistrate at a young age. He served his office with integrity, but when Good King Tarten died, the medieval kingdom of Northwaye fell into chaos. With his family dead, Owen abandoned his profession to wander the southern plains as a hunter, living only to lose himself in a bottle.Then one day two young daughters are kidnapped by marauders, taken as slaves to cities in the north. Though Owen thinks their rescue best accomplished by bounty hunters, their distraught fathers beg him for help, and so begins an adventure where Owen will encounter bold mercenaries, merciless freebooters, fierce warrior women, and corrupt government officials. And in the course of this journey, Owen will discover he is searching for more than two lost innocents.

Custer at the Alamo was my first time travel/alternate history book. It took a decade to research. The sequel, Custer and Crockett, was released in October, 2016. Reviews have been good. My science fiction novels include the nine-book Tranquility series about a boy orphaned on the moon and raised by computers. In 2014, the series was extended with Slave of Akrona. Magistrate of the Dark Land is my first fantasy novel, the tale of a cowardly lawyer searching for two kidnapped girls in a war torn medieval land. In 2017, I will be publishing two contemporary action/adventure novels titled Diminished Capacity and Diminished Capacity 2: Second Chances.